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Russia flies in missile components for trials

After the successful trials of the ship-launched and land-to-land versions of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, India and Russia now aim to try out air-launched and submarine-launched variants of the missile.

A Russian airforce transport aircraft flew directly from a Russian airbase to the Bhubaneswar airport on Friday to unload "sensitive cargo" relating to the new variants of the BrahMos missile. The cargo carried in two trailers, which left for the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur accompanied by police escorts and a fire tender.

Sources in the ITR told HT that new versions of BrahMos would soon be tested for which the missile components were sourced from Russia.

Trials of the anti-ship version of BrahMos missile have already been completed and the last successful test firing was conducted from destroyer INS Rajput in the Arabian Sea earlier this year. Land-to-land version BrahMos II was test-fired in a desert range in Rajasthan in December 2004.

"We are now focussing on the air-launched version which would be integrated with Sukhoi MKI (Mark India) multi-role fighter aircraft and submarine-launched version," sources said.

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